When Tara is set to choose a bud to take over her reign, Mandrake sees a chance to steal the bud and raise it in darkness. The bud finds an unlikely protector in M.K. (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), a human teen who doesn't believe her scientist father (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) about the Leaf Men  until she's magically shrunk so she sees them herself.

Director Chris Wedge ("Ice Age" and the Joyce-designed "Robots") gives us gorgeous views of the forest, but the story's predictability  and resemblance to 1992's "FernGully: The Last Rainforest"  makes for a pretty, dull ride.

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